to homepage

Michael C. Hickey

Department of History, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania 

Bloomsburg PA 17815     570-389-4161  

  mhickey@bloomu.edu 

education

B.A. Dec. 1981 Northern Illinois University

M.A. May 1984 Northern Illinois University

Summer 1986 Indiana University Summer Slavic Institute

Ph.D. May 1993 Northern Illinois University

 

teaching  

Professor, Bloomsburg University (2002-)

Associate Professor, Bloomsburg University (1996-2002)

Assistant Professor, Bloomsburg University (1992-1996)

Instructor, University of Minnesota, Morris (1990-1992)

Instructor; Northern Illinois University (Spring 1990)

 

publication 

articles:

“Demographic Aspects of the Jewish Population of Smolensk Province, 1870s-1914.” Acta Slavica Iaponica 19 (2002):  84-116.

“Discourses of Public Identity and Liberalism in the February Revolution:  Smolensk, 1917.” The Russian Review 55, no. 4 (1996): 615-37.  

“Local Government and State Authority in the Provinces: Smolensk, February-June 1917,”  Slavic Review 55, no. 4 (1996):  863-881.

“Paper, Memory, and a Good Story:  How Smolensk Got Its ‘October.’”  Revolutionary Russia 13, no. 1 (Dec.2000): 1-19.

“Moderate Socialists and the Politics of Crime in Revolutionary Smolensk.”  Canadian-American Slavic Studies 35, nos. 2-3 (2001):  189-218.

“Peasant Autonomy, Soviet Power, and Land Redistribution in Smolensk Province, November 1917-May 1918.”  Revolutionary Russia 9, no. 1 (1996): 19-32.

“'People With Pure Souls':  Jewish Youth Radicalism in Smolensk, 1900-1914.”  Revolutionary Russia 20, no. 1 (2007):  51-73.

“Revolution on the Jewish Street: Smolensk, 1917.”  The Journal of Social History 31, no. 4 (1998): 823-850.  

“Roshia yudaya jinn komyuniti no kaibou:  Sumorensuku kenn niokeru yudayajiun no junkougakutekei sokumenn, 1870 nenndai-1914 nenn.”  Roshiashi-kenkyu 68 (2001):  40-55.

“Russian Migrant Laborers in Helsinki on the Eve of World War One: A Research Note.” The Journal of Baltic Studies 26, no. 4 (1996): 361-74.

“Urban Zemliachestva and Rural Revolution: Petrograd and the Smolensk Countryside in 1917,” The Soviet and Post Soviet Review 23, no. 2 (1996): 143-169.

 

book chapters:

“Big Strike in a Small City:  The Smolensk Metalworkers Strike and the Dynamics of Provincial Labor Unrest in 1917.”  In Michael Melancon and Alice Pate, eds., New Labor History: Worker Identity and Experience in Late Tsarist Russia.  207-231.  Bloomington:  Slavica, 2002.

“Gorod Smolensk v 1917 godu: revoliutsiia kak politicheskii protsess, voprosy i istochniki.” In E. V. Kodin, ed., Stalinizm v Rossiiskoi provintsii.  55-66.  Smolensk: Smolensk State Pedagogical University, 1999.  

“Politicheskaia kul'tura i mezhpartiinoe sotrudnichestvo v Smolenske.” In Obshchestvennaia mysl' i politicheskie deiateli Rossii XIX i XX vv.  207-210. Smolensk: Smolensk State Pedagogical Institute, 1996.

“Revoliutsiia na evreiskoi ulitse:  Smolensk, 1917 god.”  In E. V. Kodin and Michael Hickey, eds., Smolenshchina na stranitsakh Amerikanskoi istoricheskoi literatury.  53-93.  Smolensk:  Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Smolensk State Pedagogical University Press, 2000.

“The Rise and Fall of Smolensk's Moderate Socialists: The Politics of Class and the Rhetoric of Crisis in 1917.” In Donald J. Raleigh, ed., Provincial Landscapes: Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1917-1953. 14-35.  Pittsburgh:  Pittsburgh University Press, 2001.   

“The Rise and Fall of Smolensk's Moderate Socialists: The Politics of Class and the Rhetoric of Crisis in 1917.”  Re-published in Rex A. Wade, ed.,  Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches to the Russian Revolution of 1917. 159-184.  New York:  Routledge, 2004.

 

encyclopedia entries:

“All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets (VTsIK),” in George Ryhne, ed., The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, Supplement, Vol. 1, 216-220. Gulf Breeze: Academic International Press, Spring 1995.

“Jews and Anti-Semitism.”  In Peter N. Stearns, ed., The Encyclopedia of European Social History. Vol. 1, 433-447.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.

"The July Days (1917)," in James R. Millar, ed., The Encyclopedia of Russian History.  Vol. 2, 713.  New York:  Macmillan, 2004.

"Lev Kamenev" in James R. Millar, ed., The Encyclopedia of Russian History. Vol. 2, 720-721.  New York:  Macmillan, 2004.

 

books:

With Evgenii V. Kodin, eds., Smolenshchina na stranitsakh Amerikanskoi istoricheskoi literatury.  Smolensk:  Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Smolensk State Pedagogical University Press, 2000.  384 pp.

 

book reviews:   

If my count is correct, forty-seven reviews in Canadian-American Slavic Studies, H-Russia, The Historian, History of Education Quarterly, The Journal of Baltic Studies, Nationality Papers, NEP Era, Russian History, The Russian Review, Slavic Review, and The Slavic and East European Journal.

 

conference presentations:

If my count is correct, forty-eight papers and commentaries at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and other conferences and seminars in the US, the UK, Russia, and Japan; five panels chaired at the AAASS and other conferences in the US.

 

grants and fellowships

Bloomsburg University Sabbatical Award, “Fighting Words:  Voices in Conflict in the 1917 Russian Revolution.”  Fall 2008.

Bloomsburg University Individual Faculty Research, "A Pragmatic Anti-Semite in Tsarist Russia:  The Career of Mikhail Gromyko." June-July 2007.

Bloomsburg University Faculty Professional Development Re-Assigned Time Award, "2008 AAASS Conference Planning Committee." Spring 2008

Bloomsburg University Faculty Professional Development Re-Assigned Time Award, "Revolutionary Smolensk:  1917 in a Russian Province." Spring 2005

Bloomsburg University Individual Faculty Research, "Travel to Yale University to Use Microfilmed Poalei Tsion Archives." July 2004.

International Research and Exchange Commission Short Term Research Grant, "Disenfranchised Jews, Zionist Youth, and State Power in Smolensk in the 1920s."  Smolensk, Russia.  June 2004.

Kennan Institute For Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars East European Short Term Grant, “Sown With Tears:  The Jews of Smolensk.” January-February  2001.

Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center COE-Foreign Visiting Scholar Fellowship.  June-November 2000.  

Bloomsburg University Sabbatical Award, “That Which is Sown With Tears:  The Jews of Smolensk, 1860-1945.”  2000-2001.

Bloomsburg Foundation Grant, “Smolensk in the Pages of American Historical Literature.” 2000.

Bloomsburg University Research and Disciplinary Projects Grant, “Sown With Tears:  The Jews of Smolensk.” 2000.

Bloomsburg University Professional Faculty Development Re-Assigned Time Award, ¼ Released Time Award, “Picturing World History.”  Fall 1999.

Bloomsburg University Research and Disciplinary Projects Grant, “Memories, Paper Trails, and the Strength of a Good Story.” 1999.

Bloomsburg University Research and Disciplinary Projects Grant, “Archival Research Trip to Smolensk, Russia.” 1998.

University of Illinois Russian and East European Center Summer Research Laboratory Associate.  July-August 1998.

International Research and Exchange Commission Short-Term Travel Grant, “Crime, Punishment, and State Authority in Revolutionary Smolensk.” Smolensk, Russia.  June 1997.

Bloomsburg University Professional Faculty Development Re-Assigned Time Award, 1/4 Released Time Award, “Crime, Punishment, and State Authority in the Russian Revolution.” Fall 1997.

Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars East European Center Short-Term Grant, “Provincial Jewish Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution: Smolensk, 1917.”  May-June/August 1996.

NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, “New Departures in the Comparative Study of Revolutions,” Cornell University. June-August 1996.

Bloomsburg University Individual Faculty Research Grants, “Revolutionary Smolensk: Politics and Society in Provincial Russia, 1917.” 1996.

Bloomsburg University Professional Faculty Development Re-Assigned Time Award, 1/4 Reassigned Time, “Provincial Jewish Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution.” Summer 1996.

Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Intersystem Project Grant, “SSHE HistoryNet” and “SSHE History Forum.” 1995-96.

Bloomsburg University Grant for Research and Disciplinary Projects, “Revolutionary Smolensk.” 1994-1995.

Hayter Endowment Research Grant, Northern Illinois University. 1990.

NIU Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship. 1988-89.

Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship,  Finland. 1987-88.

University of Illinois Russian and Slavic Studies Center Summer Research Lab Associate. 1985.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        related activities

Grant application reviewer for the National Endowment for Humanities Collaborative Research Fellowship.  2001.

Member of Editorial Board of History of Education Quarterly.  2001-2003.

Manuscript reviewer for The Slavic Review.   

Manuscript reviewer for Scholars (SSHE journal).   

Manuscript reviewer for The Journal of Baltic Studies.   

Manuscript reviewer for History of Education Quarterly. 

Text reviewer for Longman Press.  2005, 2006, 2007.

Text reviewer for McGraw-Hill Press.  2001, 2004, 2005.

Text reviewer for Enslow Press.  2000.

Text reviewer for Wadsworth Publishing Co.  1997, 1999.

 

membership in professional organizations

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

AAASS Committee on Education

American Historical Association

Columbia University Seminar on Slavic History and Culture

Delaware Valley Seminar on Russian History

Mid-Atlantic Slavic Association  

Southern Slavic Association

Wildman Study Group on the History of Russian Labor and Society

 

other

Editor, Carver (The Interdisciplinary Journal of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania). 1997-2000.

  

Hickey Home Page